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Recieved: 2004/03/21 21:48
Subject: Re: [K-list] No Desire
From: forrest curo
On 2004/03/21 21:48, forrest curo posted thus to the K-list:
>Buddha says desire and attachment are the cause of all suffering, so
>that's great, some
>self validation that i'm on the right path.
>
>Is desire replaced by Self connected to the Great Spirit, who guides us,
>or is this a false
>understanding. How can life function without desire ?
I asked a Buddhist friend that question back in the 60's; he said "I don't
feel any need to make love, but often when I go to bed at night there's a
friendly woman with me, and we do what we like, and that's just fine." I
think the problem is not with wanting and enjoying, but with with craving
things that aren't available, or aren't good for us--and with fear of
losing things we do have. Our lives, our youth, our health for example.
God, Life, The Universe, Buddha, What-You-Call-It, wishes us well because
we ARE it (Nothing else being available to make us out of...) So while we
have a great many mistaken, sometimes even destructive interpretations of
various religious teachings, there is generally some way of interpreting
any religion to produce a valid take on how things are. Despite superficial
contradictions, they all strive to make sense of the same Big Here-It-Is.
(When you see that BHII, many religious doctrines start making sense, while
a lot of people's talk about these doctrines STOPS making sense, being
obviously aimed in the wrong direction.)
Buddhism is a fine container to package your enlightenment in, but it's no
substitute for the direct vision that gave rise to Buddhism.
To the extent that anyone can be an artist, a poet, a musician--any kind of
coworker with Inspiration--you see your individual desire, ambition, plans
and you work with the constraints of the materials & with a growing concept
of what you're making. You aren't just making something "you" invented, and
you aren't just functioning as God's robot (God could have just made
robots, not humans, if that had been the point)--You are part of the
spiritual universe at work/play.
If you don't know what your art-form is...it may not be anything we
normally think of as "art." But if there's something you love, there's a
starting point.
Forrest Curo
San Diego
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